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...Fleet Street has not forgotten how heavy fines running up to $2,500 each were exacted from some of London's principal newspapers for their reporting of the incident in which figured an herbalist named George Andrew McMahon, his revolver and King Edward (TIME, July 27). The nature of this incident as ultimately aired in court was something upon which Fleet Street found it financially safer not to comment last week. Almost alone was the Chicago Tribune in sending its Correspondent David Darrah to report what the herbalist's lawyer Alfred Kerstein had to say as he moved...
Meanwhile Britain's press, resuming the regular Fleet Street routine on King Edward's return, generally told last week how distressed His Majesty appeared as he looked at pictures of working class slum houses shown to him at a new Housing Exhibition. His comment: "Pretty grim!" At sight of a poster reading Rents Still Too High, His Majesty nodded and inspected maps showing where they are too high-among other places in areas privately owned by King Edward. With what British papers described as a "grimace," His Majesty pointed out his own Duchy of Cornwall from which...
...usual, however, vast Netherlands Indies, not the small Netherlands, was the nub of the Speech from the Throne. Without directly mentioning the Dutch Cabinet's fear that outbreak of a major war anywhere would be the signal for the Japanese Fleet to pounce upon Borneo and seize from the Netherlands Indies the most important oil fields in the whole Far East, the Speech of matronly Wilhelmina touched tidily upon the new defenses for the Netherlands Indies now being invested in by Her Majesty's Government. By 1040 the Netherlands Indies air force is to be completely reorganized with...
...delegates dispersed in London after amiable cordialities, but Red-sympathizing sailors of the Portuguese Fleet in Lisbon harbor were so vexed that they mutinied against their officers on the sloop Afonso de Albuquerque and the destroyer Dāo. Immediately Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar opened fire on the ships with powerful Lisbon fortress batteries, disabled and towed them ashore where it will not be difficult to patch them up. Oliveira Salazar soldiers marched the mutinous sailors to jail whence they expected to be sent to the Portuguese penal colony in the tropics. In an adroit proclamation the Portuguese Government...
...this, as have President Roosevelt and Emperor Hirohito, for the Treaty provides that any signatory may take the imaginary "escalator" up to greater sea armaments upon giving due notice. Last week Japan in her bold reply similarly climbed aboard the escalator, announced that she is enlarging her submarine fleet to exceed that of either Britain...